As some of you may have noticed, Amazon have just removed thousands of books from their erotica section on Kindle. This type of censorship, particularly for books that have been sold for many years without a problem, is ridiculous.

Firstly, I would encourage anyone with a Kindle account to complain. Although it’s unlikely to have much effect, if enough people do it then perhaps Amazon will take notice.

Secondly, YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUY BOOKS FROM AMAZON TO READ THEM ON YOUR KINDLE.All the books that Amazon have “banned” are available FOR KINDLE from other online retailers – A1AdulteBooks and Smashwords, among others, have all the titles.On A1AdulteBooks there is an option specifically for “Send this book to my Kindle”, on others, downloading the “.prc” ("Mobipocket") version and emailing it to your Kindle will work perfectly.

Please, don’t let Amazon get away with this sort of unilateral censorship.

I have always refused to deal with the Kindle, since Amazon has also deleted purchased books without warning (Moby Dick was the biggest), and has also closed down accounts saying there were TOS violations -- and you may NOT ask about it because customer service is only for customers. Talk about arrogant!